When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the crowds welcomed him as their King, with shouts of joy and great excitement. But the mood soon began to change.
The chief priests and teachers of the law were determined to arrest Jesus, so they sent the Pharisees with a question that they believed would trap him.
Jesus gave what was perhaps the cleverest of all his answers, but first he asked the Pharisees a question of his own.
Jesus loved the disciples, but he didn’t mollycoddle them, and sometimes he could be extremely direct, especially when they were being slow to understand. Today we see the disciples struggling with the concept that we’re not made right with God by doing outward religious stuff.
Continuing with our 'Questions Jesus Asked' series, today we looked at a question Jesus asked the religious leaders when they accused him of being demonic.
We began a new series today in Mark’s Gospel called, 'Questions Jesus Asked.' Today we looked at a command that was, in a sense, also a question - "Come, follow me." In this episode, we explore what it means to hear those words as a personal invitation.
Reading God’s Word is unlike reading anything else, because through it God speaks to us, giving us everything we need to know for salvation. It’s not about collecting more information; it’s about coming to know a person. From beginning to end, the whole Bible points us to Jesus.
Today we looked at something that you might be surprised to find on a list of spiritual disciplines, namely, Celebration. It’s a good reminder that none of the spiritual disciplines ought to feel like chores, rather they’re something that we joyfully look forward to as we draw ever closer to Jesus.
We see so much evil in the world around us, and even in our own hearts, but what can be done to counter it? We must turn away from sin and towards Jesus, and encourage society to do the same.
Of all the spiritual disciplines, fasting is probably the one we struggle with the most. Fasting has fallen out of mode with Christians in the West, but are we in danger of losing something important for our spiritual growth? When do we fast? Why do we fast? Do we have to fast? These are some of the important questions explored in this sermon.
15 Febuary 2026
Matthew 4:1-4, Matthew 6:16-18, Acts13:2=3
Rev Charlie Lacey
Jesus teaches that the most important thing we can do in life is to love God with all that we are. That single commitment shapes so much of our lives now and everything about the life to come. And without that love and devotion to God, the spiritual disciplines we’re exploring in this series lose their purpose entirely.
We started a new series today all about Spiritual Disciplines to help get us in the right mindset for the season of Lent. We started by looking at prayer, without which we do not have a relationship with God.
So far in our 'Glory' series, we’ve seen that God’s glory is best seen through His character – and God’s character is best seen in the person of Jesus. But we’ve also seen that God wants us to reflect his glory, in preparation for the day when Jesus returns and God’s people are perfected and fully glorified.
We can’t fail to notice that there’s a huge gulf between the best and worst of human behaviour. And, if we’re honest, we’d have to admit that there’s a huge gulf between the best and worst of our own behaviour. In many ways human beings can be glorious – but often we’re quite the opposite – we can be extremely inglorious. Today we found out why.
We’ve come to week two of our first series of the year, which is called ‘Glory’. Last week we saw that God’s glory is best expressed through his character – and this week we’re going to see that God’s character has been perfectly expressed in and through the person of Jesus.
Today was The Epiphany of Our Lord. Epiphany means ‘appearance,' and God has made himself known to us, not only through creation – but by making an appearance and revealing himself to us personally. We’re started a new series today called ‘Glory,’ and over the next 4 weeks we’re going to explore all the ways that God’s glory is manifested on earth.
On the last Sunday of the year, as we headed into 2026, we thought about ‘time’. What is it? Why does it exist? How do we use it? How should we use it? And what are we going to do with the 8760 hours that will make up 2026?
The birth of Jesus is the defining event of human history - God became man and entered into his creation. To discover why this happened, we don’t need to look beyond the two names that appear in today’s reading: Jesus and Immanuel.
As part of our ‘Songs of Advent’ series we looked at Simeon’s song, sometimes called the Nunc Dimittis (‘now dismiss’). It’s a song that reminds us that the whole of history has been moving ever closer to God’s final act of salvation.
Humanity longs for peace, whilst simultaneously making it an impossibility. There is only one who can bring true and lasting peace to the world and to our individual lives, and his name is Jesus.
14 December 2025
Isaiah 9: 2-7a & Luke 2: 1-21
Rev Charlie Lacey
God had been silent for 400 years, and then, all of a sudden, Jesus’ birth narrative begins - and various people are filled with the H/S, burst into song, and prophesy. Today we focussed on Zechariah (the father of John the Baptiser), who reminds us that Jesus saves us from something, but he also saves us for something.
On this first Sunday of Advent we began a new series called, ‘Songs of Advent’. Luke includes four songs in the first two chapters of his Gospel. Mary, Zechariah, the angels, and Simeon, all break into song. And over the next four weeks we’ll see that their song is also our song – as we celebrate what God has done, is doing, and will do to redeem and restore this broken world.
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